John Jerome Rooney

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    It is easy enough to say that poverty is no crime. No; if it were men wouldn’t be ashamed of it. It is a blunder, though, and is punished as such. A poor man is despised the whole world over.
    Jerome K. Jerome (1859–1927)

    A lot of people have asked me how short I am. Since my last divorce, I think I’m about $100,000 short.
    —Mickey Rooney (b. 1920)